Wanjia Zhu received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. His research focuses on industrial organization, covering topics such as mergers, durable goods, and markups.
In new research, Enghin Atalay, Alan Sorensen, Christopher Sullivan, and Wanjia Zhu find that mergers and acquisitions often lead to the merged firm offering less product variety than when the two firms operated pre-merger.